Cornelia Funke Quotes - Page 7

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• Nobody loves only once.

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• The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

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  Night, Foxes

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.62, Chicken House

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• Where did the love come from? What was it made of?

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  Made

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• Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

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  Men, Yesterday, Long

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• I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

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  World, Knows

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Dragon Rider”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

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  Air, Voice, Empty

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?

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  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

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• The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

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  Book, Fall, Weather

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.9, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

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  Clever, Powerful, Book

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• It's a cruel world, don't you think?

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  Thinking, World, Cruel World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.497, Scholastic Inc.

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• Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

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  Block, Loneliness, Voice

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• Beauty and fear make uneasy companions

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  Companion, Uneasy

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.95, Chicken House

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• They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

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  Cash, Detectives, Counterfeit

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• The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.

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  Dark, Animal, Night

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• Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

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  People, Worry, Able

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.

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  Book, House, World

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

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• What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

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  Princess, Stories, Matter

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• Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

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  Home, Eye, His Eyes

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.33, Chicken House

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• The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.

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  Blood, Games, Enemy

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• The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

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  Flower, Dresses, Rotting

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• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

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  Real, People, Unhappy

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• He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

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  Father, Stories, Ears

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• He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull away, he took her face between his hands and kissed her again, on her forehead, on her nose, on her mouth once more. "You will come, won't you? Promisse!" he whispered.

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  Rain, Hands, Skins

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.324, Scholastic Inc.

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• So it's happened, I kept thinking, you're in the middle of a story exactly as you've always wanted, and it's horrible. Fear tastes quite different when you're not just reading about it, Meggie, and playing hero wasn't half as much fun as I'd expected.

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  Fun, Fear, Reading

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.117, Chicken House

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